Hello!
Really quick question that Google seems to have fuzzy answers about.
Why does some apps and program LOVE to create folders beginning with a dot? (i.e .VirtualBox .atom), I have probably around 20 of those folders and it's pretty invasive, my personal folder should consist of stuff only I should be able to control, a safe haven where I can find all of my stuff, not a place where every program has a fun time bloating my folder.
Is there any particular reason why are those folders created there? Is there any way I can prevent future occurences of this?
[QUOTE=Fleskhjerta;51736515]Hello!
Really quick question that Google seems to have fuzzy answers about.
Why does some apps and program LOVE to create folders beginning with a dot? (i.e .VirtualBox .atom), I have probably around 20 of those folders and it's pretty invasive, my personal folder should consist of stuff only I should be able to control, a safe haven where I can find all of my stuff, not a place where every program has a fun time bloating my folder.
Is there any particular reason why are those folders created there? Is there any way I can prevent future occurences of this?[/QUOTE]
that's exactly why they're showing up
%userprofile% is equivalent to $HOME on unix-y OS
windows doesn't hide .folders, unix-y does.
[QUOTE=Fleskhjerta;51736515]Hello!
Really quick question that Google seems to have fuzzy answers about.
Why does some apps and program LOVE to create folders beginning with a dot? (i.e .VirtualBox .atom), I have probably around 20 of those folders and it's pretty invasive, my personal folder should consist of stuff only I should be able to control, a safe haven where I can find all of my stuff, not a place where every program has a fun time bloating my folder.
Is there any particular reason why are those folders created there? Is there any way I can prevent future occurences of this?[/QUOTE]
if you're talking about your home pc, every folder is your folder, just don't use the c:\users\yourname folder
[URL="https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp"]A lot of *nix programs just dump .folders and .files just because why .not[/URL]
[QUOTE=EE 20 D0;51736678][URL="https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp"]A lot of *nix programs just dump .folders and .files just because why .not[/URL][/QUOTE]
$XDG_HOME came after dotfiles being a thing
where the hell were user specific config files supposed to go before that
[QUOTE=Rob Pike](For those who object that dot files serve a purpose, I don't dispute that but counter that it's the files that serve the purpose, not the convention for their names. They could just as easily be in $HOME/cfg or $HOME/lib, which is what we did in Plan 9, which had no dot files. Lessons can be learned.)[/QUOTE]
Since everybody decided to just stick them in $HOME instead of coming up with something like the quote, they'll stay in $HOME along with the also dotfile attempt to hide dotfiles that's $XDG_HOME.
I think the only way to not have these files today is to build your own 'distro' and patch the software to use your preferred convention.
I see a lot of software storing stuff in ~/.config/, I reckon that's a nice setup.
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